Bud Larsen, Hardanger Fiddle maker and teacher, looks at part of a fiddle a student is making. It is part of a growing community of fiddle makers marking the 200th anniversary of the first arrival by ...

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SYMPATHETIC STRINGS highlights the fiddle makers, musicians, dancers and apprentices who have formed an ardent, close-knit community of folk tradition practice around Norway’s beloved national ...

BRAINERD — Bud Larsen has spent years teaching others the art of building Norwegian hardanger fiddles. On Jan. 16, Larsen and his wife Marlys escaped an early morning fire at their home near Brainerd.

There’s an old marble theater inside a towering art deco skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn. Architecture firm McKim, Mead & White designed the building not long after it built Penn Station. And though ...

Sympathetic Strings: Stories of the Hardanger Fiddle e xplores the Scandinavian American history and culture surrounding the Hardanger fiddle as it is practiced in the Upper Midwest. The documentary ...